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'ASAFiR (Umm)—
Three tanks, at considerable distances apart, on the Darb Zubaidih, in northern
Arabia. They are situated in the Hajarah desert, just south of the Jal-al-Batn. Ap
parently they only contain water after rain. The most northerly of them is nearly 40
feet in diameter.— {Huher, 1881).
'ASAFIRAH (T ribe)—
See Baharinah (Tribe).
'ASAFIRAH—
An agricultural tract in the Karbala Qadh^, {q.v.).
ASAFIYAH—
A creek which leaves the Euphrates abOtit If miles above Garmat ^Ali and joins it
again where the Euphrates meets the Shatt-al-'Arab. In March it is navigable for
mahailahs.
AS AID AH—
A family of the al Zaiyad, one of the rural tribes of 'Iraq (<7-^.),
ASAIFlRAT—
Some wells in Jauf {q.v.) in the Hasa district.
ASAIL—
A town in Widyan Dawa?ir {q.v.).
'ASAILAH—
The boat of the Na'aijah wells. In Dohah {q.v.).
'ASAILAN—
Some wells in the Hazaim {q.v.) district of the Kuwait principality.
'AS AIR AH (A l)—
A mud bank in the new channel of the Euphrates near Samana Point, between Gurmat
'Ali and Suq-ash-Shuyukh.
ASAJI (Q al'at).—
One of the marsh hamlets of Mesopotamia, situated about 25 miles south-west by
west from the town of Di wanly ah.
'ASAKIRAH—
One of the wealthier and more important families of the Baharinah tribe (q.v.) who
live in the Bahrain Principality.
'ASAKIRAH—
A section of the Al Wahibah tribe {q.v.).
'ASALAH—
See Aden Protectorate.
ASAMM (B ani-al)—•
A nomad section oi the Bani Shatair division of the Shihuh tribe {q. v.).
'ASASlF— . , , v
A section of the Al Wahibah tnbe {q. v.)*
ASAWAH (K han)—
A sarai in 'Iraq on the Baghdad-Najaf road {vid Kifl). Khan Asawah was once a
well-known halting-place, but is now in ruins. It is stituated near the north bank
of the Shatt-al-Mulla canal, at a distance of about 8 miles from Najaf.